Stuart Stone

Stuart Stone (born Stuart Eisenstein; November 17, 1980) is a Canadian actor as well as a producer of television, film and music. He is best known for his roles as Ronald Fisher in the 2001 cult film, Donnie Darko and Ralphie Tennelli on The Magic School Bus animated television series from 1994 to 1997. Stone has also toured as a comedian and rapper.

Stuart Stone
Stone on stage in 2007
Born	Stuart Eisenstein (1980-11-17) November 17, 1980 (age 44) Thornhill, Ontario, Canada
Other names	Stu Stone
Education	Thornlea Secondary School University of Delaware
Occupation(s)	Actor, Director, Comedian, Rapper, Record producer, Wrestler
Years active	1984-present

Early life

Stone was born Stuart Eisenstein in Thornhill, Ontario. He attended Thornlea Secondary School. His parents ran a franchise selling hockey and baseball cards. After graduating high school, he moved to Los Angeles, California to continue his career in acting.

Career

Stone started his acting career at age two, appearing in Canadian TV commercials such as Maple Leaf Foods Ham ^[1] and Kraft Dinner^[2] as a child actor in Toronto. He made his major motion picture debut in Heavenly Bodies as Joey, Samantha Blair's son played by Cynthia Dale, in 1985. Since then, he has guest-starred in many such as Goosebumps, Boston Public, and Flash Forward. He starred in animated features such as Babar: The Movie and The Magic School Bus ^[3] as a voice-over actor. He has also done voice-over work for Care Bears and voices both main characters in the Canadian cartoon Carl Squared. He also had roles in the films Donnie Darko and The Boys Club.

In 2006, Stone and his friend Jamie Kennedy starred together in the MTV reality show Blowin' Up, which showed the journey the two went through to create a hit rap album and "blowin' up". After the show aired its finale, the album Stone and Kennedy created was released, which was titled Blowin' Up to correspond with their reality series, and both also appeared on the MTV show True Love. The album featured guest appearances from Houston rapper Paul Wall and Bay Area rapper E-40, as well as actors Bob Saget and Jason Biggs.^{[citation needed]}

Stone has been known to tour off and on with Kennedy on his stand-up tours, performing songs from the Blowin' Up album, as well as the song "The Left One", featured on Kennedy's Unwashed album. Shows on this variety are routinely opened by comedian Bill Dawes, and at times have had guests, such as Saget at a November 17, 2006, Las Vegas show.^{[citation needed]}

Stone hosted his own show, "The Sunday Nite Stu", which was originally broadcast online through Stickam webcasts. His show aired Sundays at 9 PM PST drawing in over 300 thousand viewers monthly. He brought along a variety of guest stars and anyone with a Stickam account could join his live room and watch or even get a chance to chat with him. The show was the first ever on the Stickam site and in 2012, "Sunday Nite Stu" celebrated over 10 million viewers. Guests included Colt Cabana, The Last Goodnight, Paul Wall, Young Church, Elliott Yamin, Kaz James, Jared McMullin, Andy Milonakis, and Chester French.^[4]

Stone's TSM RADIO podcast continues to be one of the most listened to on the net. Stone's interviews often give a chance for fans to hear their favourite artists and actors speak in a more "candid" fashion. Guests have included Tila Tequila, Perez Hilton, Jason Wahler, Talan Torriero, Elliott Yamin, Bonnie McKee, Everlast, Lucy Walsh, Dennis Haskins, Rohan Marley, Edward Furlong, Flower Tucci, Chyna, Kendra Jade, Christy Hemme, Diamond Dallas Page, Bobby Lee, Cisco Adler, and many others.

Stone worked as the producer of magician Criss Angel's television series. He also produced "Criss Angel: Loyal Saturday" and "Criss Angel: Live Wire" broadcasts.^{[citation needed]}

Stone performs regularly on the weekly pro-wrestling series "Championship Wrestling From Hollywood". Stone handles commentary on the broadcast as well as performing alongside his stable of wrestlers: The Family Stone.^{[citation needed]}

Stone along with his business partner and brother-in-law Adam Rodness formed the company 5'7 films. Stone served as director and co-writer on the film The Haunted House On Kirby Road, which won best horror feature at the Toronto Independent Film Festival. Stu Stone also won best director for the film at the CineView film festival. 5'7 films has announced a second feature with Breakthrough entertainment which will once again put Stone in the director's chair. Another horror film revolving around Scarecrows. The company also has said they will be releasing a documentary feature on the world of baseball cards.^[5][6]

Stone and Rodness appear in the music video for the song "Falling Back" by Drake, appearing as members of The Dan Band during a wedding scene.^[7]

Stone, along with a group known as Legal Banter, pioneered the sports jersey reveal party. This jersey exchange turned social event honours oft-forgotten 1970s-2000s sports heroes, while enabling safe adherence to COVID-19 distancing restrictions.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Donnie Darko	Ronald Fisher
2002	Sorority Boys	Valet
2013	A Resurrection	Nick
2016	Gearheads	Travis

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Heavenly Bodies	Joel Blair
	The Edison Twins	Pete	Episode: "Enemy of Weston"
1986	Kay O'Brien	Danny Villaneuva	Episode: "Taking the Heat"
1987	My Pet Monster	Chuckie (voice)	[8]
	Blue Monkey	Joey
1988	War of the Worlds	Bobby	Episode: "Thy Kingdom Come"
	Clifford's Fun with Letters	Additional voices	Video short
	ALF Tales	Additional voices
1989–91	Babar	Arthur, Alexander (voice)	[8]
1989–93	Katts and Dog	Buddie	6 episodes
1989	The Teddy Bears' Picnic	Wally Bear (voice)	TV special
1990	The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3	Hip, Junior (voice)
1990–91	The Raccoons	Bentley Raccoon, Danny (voice)	7 episodes[8]
1991	Wish Kid	Darryl Singletary (voice)
	Rupert	Additional voices
	Swamp Thing	Additional voices	5 episodes
	Super Mario World	Hip (voice)
	Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures	Additional voices	DIC version
	Beetlejuice	Ramon	Episode: "Beetledude"
1992	Used People	Cousin Stevie
	Maniac Mansion	Frankie Vaughn	Episode: "Ike's Black Eye"
	The Teddy Bears' Christmas	Wally Bear	Television film
1992–1996	X-Men: The Animated Series	Proteus, Tyler Dayspring, additional voices	Recurring role
1992–1994	Dog City	Eddie (voice)	6 episodes[8]
1993	Tales from the Cryptkeeper	Craig (voice)	Episode: "The Works... In Wax"[8]
1994	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Doug Johnston	Episode: "The Tale of the Quicksilver"
	The Tick	Charles / Brainchild (voice)	Episode: "Coach Fussell's Lament"
	Highlander: The Animated Series	Various
	Wild C.A.T.s	Additional voices
1994–97	The Magic School Bus	Ralphie Tennelli (voice)	52 episodes[8]
	The Busy World of Richard Scarry	Kenny Bear, Manuel, Pig Will, Pig Won't (voice)
1995	Goosebumps	Brian Colson	Episode: "Phantom of the Auditorium"
	Little Bear	Additional voices
	Ultraforce	Additional voices
1996	Flash Forward	Jack Debbens	6 episodes
	Ace Ventura: Pet Detective	Additional voices
1997	The Boys Club	Brad
	Beverly Hills, 90210	Kid	Episode: "Friends in Deed"
1998	Pacific Blue	Jason Sanchez	Episode: "Double Lives"
1999	The Pretender	Chris	Episode: "Murder 101"
	Vendetta	Tony Provenzano	Television film
2000	Damaged Goods	Felix	Television film
	The Independent	Jack Barth
2001	Da Möb	JT (voice)
2001	Joy Ride	Danny, Lewis' Roommate
2002	Boston Public	Jordan Murphy	Episode: "Chapter Thirty-Seven"
2002–2003	Rugrats	Various voices	2 episodes[8]
2003	Saint Seiya	Cygnus Hyoga (voice)	DIC English dub
2004	Cyberchase	Sheldon, Scritter (voice)	Episode: "Piece of the Action"
	Braceface	Taylor Knight (voice)	Episode: "Knight to Remember"
	Mutant X	Einstein	Episode: "Divided Loyalties"
	Serial Killing 4 Dummys	Amil
	NCIS	Dillon	Episode: "Split Decision"
2005	Carl Squared	Carl Crashman/C2 (voice)
2006	Pope Dreams	Fox
2007	Kickin' It Old Skool	DJ Tanner
2008	Bitten	Twitch
2011	Hard Love	Snap
2014	Little Savages	Fink
	Fated (Short)	Agent Cliff
2015	Kantemir	Brad
	Tar	Sebastian
	Life on the Line	Hunter

Video game roles

• Palace Pets App - Sundrop

Director

• 2016: The Haunted House on Kirby Road
• 2017: Scarecrows
• 2018: Jack of all Trades
• 2019: The Thrillusionists
• 2020: Faking a Murderer
• 2022: Vandits

Awards and nominations

Canadian Awards for the Electronic and Animated Arts (CAEAA)

Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2008	Nominated	ELAN Awards	Best Male Voice Over in an Animated Feature or Television Production, for Episode 32 "Superstar" in Carl Squared
2016	Winner	Toronto Independent Film Festival	Best Horror Feature for The Haunted House on Kirby Road
2016	Winner	CineView Film Festival	Best Director for The Haunted House on Kirby Road
2021	Winner	Cult Critics Awards	Best Cult Feature for Faking A Murderer

Discography

Albums

Album information

Track list and credits for each track

Blowin' Up [9] Released: July 11, 2006 Label: Warner Bros/JKss Records Type of label: Major Chart Positions: N/A U.S. certification: N/A U.S. Sales: N/A Worldwide sales: 350,000

Circle Circle Dot Dot (written and produced by Stu Stone and Jamie Rise) Rollin With Saget (written and produced by Stu Stone and D Sissive) 1984 (written and produced by Stu Stone, Jamie Kennedy and DJ Lethal) Flirt (written and produced by Stu Stone and Richard "Younglord" Frierson) Crooked Stick (written and produced by Stu Stone and Jamie Rise) Knuckle Up (written and produced by Stu Stone and Richard "Younglord" Frierson) Car Rear (written and produced by Stu Stone and Jamie Rise) Fuck Jamie Kennedy (written and produced by Stu Stone, E40 and Jamie Rise) Rush the Club (written and produced by Kardinal Offishal and Stu Stone) Celebrity Stalker (written and produced by Stu Stone, Jamie Kennedy and Eric V) Mattress Mack (written and produced by Stu Stone, Justin Trugman, Sporty O and Paul Wall)

Album information

Track list and credits for each track

Return of the Stone Movement (album) [10] Released: July 27, 2011 Label: The Stone Movement Type of label: Independent

Give It Up (written and produced by Stu Stone and Optimus Rock) Super Bird (written and produced by Stu Stone and DJ Lethal) Barely Legal (written and produced by Stu Stone, Justin Trugman and Marty James) Memory Lane (written and produced by Stu Stone and Justin Trugman) Wassupwidit (written and produced by Stu Stone, Young Church, Nic Nac and Oliver Goldstein) Doin Just Fine (written and produced by Stu Stone and Party Slayerz - DJ Lethal and Franko) Ordinary Girl (written and produced by Stu Stone and Jamie Rise) Stu Stone(d) (written and produced by Stu Stone and Justin Trugman) Two Sixteens (written and produced by Stu Stone, DJ Lethal and D-Sisive) Day I Died in California (written and produced by Stu Stone and Jamie Rise) How You Want It (written and produced by Stu Stone, Jay E and Joel Madden) I'd Like To Know (written and produced by Stu Stone, DJ Lethal and Ely "the Creep" Rise) Phake Wit Da Phunk (written and produced by Stu Stone and Christopher Lawrence) The Message feat Perez Hilton (written and produced by Stu Stone) Love Song (written and produced by Stu Stone and Justin Trugman) She Don't Know My Name (written and produced by Stu Stone and Jamie Rise) Breathe (written and produced by Stu Stone and Kaz James) Save The Gingers (written and produced by Stu Stone and Justin Trugman)

Singles

• "Save the Gingers (Red Head Woman)" (2010) ^[11]
• "Super Bird" (2011) ^[12]
• "Kid On X-Mas" feat Jamie Kennedy (2011) ^[13]

As featured performer
Kaz James, Sony BMG, 2008
(from James' debut solo album If They Knew) ^[14]

• "Breathe" – written and produced by Stu Stone and Kaz James
• "Subwoofers in the Neighborhood" – written and produced by Stu Stone and Kaz James

Videography

Jamie Kennedy & Stu Stone

Year	Song title	Director
2006	"Rollin' With Saget"(featuring Bob Saget)	Dave Dean
	"Circle Circle Dot Dot" (unreleased version)	Dave Dean
2007	"Circle Circle Dot Dot" (Lego version) [15][16]	Nate Blurr (Blunty3000)
	"1984"	Janet Roston & Gerry Stansgar
2011	"Kid On X-Mas" [17]	Ilya Farfell

Stu Stone

Year	Song title	Director
2008	"Breathe"(featuring Kaz James)	Fred Schepisi
2010	"Save the Gingers" [18]	Ron Howard
2011	"Super Bird" [19]	David Finkelstein
2013	"Ordinary Girl" [20]	Jeremy Foley

R.O.T.N.

Year	Song title	Director
2012	"I Just Wanna" [21]	Ilya Farfel
2013	"High As Hell" [22]	Ilya Farfel

See also

• Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up